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Subject: mih IBS II Errata and Clarifications Vers. 1.3

Iron Bottom Sound II Errata and Clarifications Vers. 1.3

3.0 Ship Log: The Aoba has 11 Hull Boxes, not 10.
The flotation letter is across from the name, not primary battery.
Torpedos are numbered, an earlier version had dashes.
Note: In some scenarios (#1) the Aoba would have a flag and a different VP
 total - see scenario #10.
6.11: The rule is correct - you do not allocate all your gunfire. Ignore
 dorment fires under 6.3.
6.3: When a ship sinks, it flips and becomes a wreck (not replaced) and will
 remain in the game, after moving the one hex forward as per the rule, for the
 remainder of the game.
8.9: Read „fire at each other“ - not fringe.
Evasion is not noted in the rules. Basically you give up one MF and declare
 it. If affects your gunnery and the ability to be hit by the enemy. It is
 essentially „salvo chasing“.
Gunnery Hit Table: The hits resulting for a decimal die roll of „1-2“ should
 be „1-3“ on row 3.
Myoko, Haguro, Atago, and Chokai have 8“ guns, not 6“.
The Japanese battlecruisers Hiei, Kongo, and Kirishima are missing an aft 14"
 turret worth 13 attack factors.
Make the San Diego, Atlanta, and Juneau have "0" for their secondary turret
 and add a "3" turret to the bow and stern - replacement sheets are available
 form MiH for these scenarios.
Gunnery Hit Table Modification to Dice Roll Table omitted a range of 12 hexes.
 It should read as „12-16“, not 13-16.
Special Damage Table: a result of 55 is „1 Hull Hit, 1M“.
Clarification, when firing at gun flashes, the ship that is being fired upon
 must have already fired. It is all done in the SAME turn.
To mark off speed boxes you start all the way to the lower left corner and
 work upwards. When you get to the top of a row, you move to the bottom of the
 next row to the right. Thus a 6-6-5 becomes a 6-5-5, then a 5-5-5, then a
 5-5-4.
The Torpedo example at top of page 12 should be 44-58-57.
Check (roll) each mega-hex a torpedo moves through if it hits.
8.3, ignore those values and use the values on the CRT - this is a legacy from
 the old IBS game. +10 is correct, if you shine your lights on another ship,
 that ship gets a +10 as it is blinded.
Scenario 10: Savo Island is on map A.
Scenario 5: Kolombangara is on map A.
Clarification: Savo island has the Allied surprise rule with one too many nots
 - it should read, „No one may fire torpedoes in this scenario unless you see
 an enemy ship in the mega-hex being fires at“. This applies to both the
 Japanese and the Allieds.
Savo Island set up: Japanese may face in direction 1 or 6. The Eastern Force
 enters, if dieroll alerted, between BB7-BB30.
The first Mega-Hex after the hex you are are in when firing torpedoes does not
 have to include entire Mega-Hex - ignore individual hexes that could not be
 hit.

Special thanks to Markus Stumptner, John Burtt and Lars Hellsten

P.S. I apolgize for so much errata - I thought it would be errata free, but it
 does show people are playing it.
Rules will be right for a IBS III with new scenarios - next year?

Jack Greene

Note: Replacement scenario sheets are available with a SSAE from MiH.

Uli